Emma Jansson

Can you tell us why it doesn't work?  For example, is there an error message?  Is the filetype not recognised?  Where did you add the *.txlf... under your file options, project settings, project template?

It would be helpful if you told us exactly what you did do, and what is happening when you try to open it?

Hi Paul,

Thank you for answering - there was an error in the project template that caused the problem. It's resolved now.

How you solved it Brro

Hi Paul,

I recently encountered problems in working on .txlk files with Trados Studio 2021, too.

I have done the configuration as many instructed. Yet when I tried to added a .txlf working file, it was added to the list but can not be opened while it says 'reference' instead of 'translatable' under the 'Usage' column. Please kindly advise. Thank you in advance.

Dan Wang

Dan Wang said:

Yet when I tried to added a .txlf working file, it was added to the list but can not be opened while it says 'reference' instead of 'translatable' under the 'Usage' column.

There are two likely reasons for this:

1. you added the new extension under your Project Settings and then created a new project; or you added the extension under File -> Options and then added the file to an existing project.
2. there is a problem with the txlf file itself

The reason for the first is that Project Settings contain settings for the project you activated only.  It won't change anything else.  And File -> Options will only affect new Projects, not existing ones.

Hopefully that will help as you probably know what you have done.

It worked! Thanks!

Hi Paul, Sorry to open an old thread - I need to open TXLF files in Studio 2021, but I can't find the instructions of how to configure it. Can you direct me a link please?

Emma Greenwood 

I don't have a direct link!  I'm sure I have explained this many times over the years but I would have tried to address the question around this at the time and don't have a generic "this is how to handle a TXLF".

I suggest you try the simple approach first and just add *.txlf to the filetype settings for XLIFF so that you can open the TXLF with the default XLIFF filetype.  You would do that here:

Make sure you do this in the project template you intend to use for your project BEFORE you create your project.

If that doesn't help please create a new thread so we can be clear about the questions and hopefully find a way forward for you.

Hi Paul,

Okay I tried this and it didn't work. But I was working in the Project settings from the Welcome page. I am pretty sure it worked before, but I had a computer crash last week and it deleted all my Trados settings from all three versions I have installed.

I work on lots of small projects so it isn't worth setting this up for every project I work on, I just need to be able to click on a file and open it!

Do I need to create a template? Where do i start for that?

Sorry - it has been a while!

Emma Greenwood 

Emma Greenwood said:

Okay I tried this and it didn't work. But I was working in the Project settings from the Welcome page.

If you worked in the Project Settings then this will never work.  It's too late by then.  If you worked in the File -> Options and it didn't work then we'd need to see what you are actually doing.  Better to use this thread I think -  How do I set up Studio 2021 to work with Wordfast Pro bilingual files?